“"Superstition is thriving. Pedantry is thriving. Sectarianism is thriving. Belief is dying out” — Alif the Unseen G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“...people don't think in churches. [ Noyce on what bothers him most about organized religion. ]” — Robert Noyce Copy Share Image
You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information. — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“ Combien de choses nous servoyent hier d’articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd’huy? How many things served us yesterday for… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application… — Arthur Jones Copy Share Image
“The best way to avoid a catastrophic conflict of beliefs is to be more compassionate about other people’s beliefs as long as… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I get dressed in the same way. Its not a superstition, at least I tell myself its not. Its more a way… — Dario Franchitti Copy Share Image
“The idea of original sin--of guilt with no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives--inherently militates against self-esteem. The very… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities…The so-called clergy stupefy the masses…They befog the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Every country has a cultural legacy and religious practices for reasons that I don’t believe fall under the category of superstition, something… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - [...] when awesome technological powers are in the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“On present-day Earth we have the most Christ-like nation in human history, a civilization built on loving kindness and demilitarization. They are… — Doug Ten Rose Copy Share Image
“For all that exists in man, whether good or evil, is rendered conspicuous by the presence of great danger. His inmost feelings… — Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker Copy Share Image
“Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Finally, I’d say to anyone who wants to tell these tales, don’t be afraid to be superstitious. If you have a lucky… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“It was about that time [415 BCE] that the poet Diagoras of Melos was proscribed for atheism, he having declared that the… — J. M. Robertson Copy Share Image
Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Theism, as religious people typically hold it, does not merely state that some entity created the universe, but that the universe was… — Tim Maudlin Copy Share Image
Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“(On belief in miracles) - "The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
“What age or period of life is the most addicted to superstition? The weakest and most timid. What sex? The same answer… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“There are none so superstitious as the educated, for often they see in their own time - as an article of faith… — Charles A. Coulombe Copy Share Image
A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion. — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Many hospitals have no room 13, while some tall buildings skip the 13th floor and some airline terminals omit Gate 13. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and superstition that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it. { Letter to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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